espresson.
/ɛˈsprɛsəʊ/, U.S. /ɛˈsprɛsoʊ/ Coffee made under steam pressure; the apparatus used for making this; a coffee-bar where it is sold. Also attributive.
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the world > food and drink > drink > coffee > [noun] > coffee by type of preparation
real coffee1877
drip coffee1895
cowboy coffee1915
café-filtre1922
caffè espresso1933
perc1936
Nescafé1938
espresso1945
instant1954
Nescaff1962
cafe Americano1964
filtre1966
Nes1967
Americano1973
espresso macchiato1976
caffè ristretto1977
ristretto1980
espresso ristretto1983
half-caf1990
1945 ‘A. Boucher’ in M. Gordon & G. Gordon Pride of Felons (1964) 80 I was drinking a caffé espresso, a strong, bitter, steamed coffee.
1955 N.Y. Times 13 Mar. x. 11/5 Also new are the numerous small Coffee Expresso Snack Restaurants off Dublin's Grafton Street.
1955 20th Cent. June 549 The brittle conversation of the Espresso Cafés.
1957 A. Wilson Bit off Map & Other Stories 137 The even more degrading swamps of espresso bar rebellion.
1957 Observer 3 Nov. 18/2 The piece on lunch-time in an espresso.
1958 M. Spark Robinson xii. 186 When I am walking down the King's Road or sipping my espresso in the morning.
1958 Spectator 22 Aug. 248/3 And what about changes in fashionable pronunciation, from taytable to espresso usage.
1958 Spectator 7 Nov. 611/1 It was not easy to accept a character like the expresso poet with his impeccable Oxford accent, grovelling in dirt.
1958 Spectator 21 Nov. 700/2 The rise of the expresso with its skiffle groups.
1958 Times 23 Oct. 16/1 An espresso machine.
1967 ‘J. Cross’ To Hell for Half-a-crown iii. 50 The waiter came in with a pot of espresso and a bottle of fifteen-year-old Meukouw.
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